Weird Trend: Trashing The Dress Photos

Would you guys ever spend upwards of 500-1,000 bucks on a dress and then purposely trash it—swim in the ocean in it, drag it through the mud, set it on fire? Well, lately women are doing just that with their wedding gowns no less. It's called "trash the dress," a picture series taken days or weeks after the big day and included by photogs in their wedding package. Now call me "no sense of humor," but I'm just not digging this...

*Forgive me if this is old news to you. I was actually unfamiliar with this apparently huge trend until my sister who lives in Florida clued me into it—she was stunned I'd never heard of it, as it's commonplace among her friends who've gotten married but less common among mine who are more of the really pricey designer dress kind of people. But whatever your budget and no matter how much you've spent on your wedding gown, is this really something you'd want to do? *One reason I've heard cited is that no one really passes their dress down or saves it for their daughters anymore. That's just considered old-fashioned since styles change so much. I hate to say because it's sort of sad, but I kind of agree with that. I love my mom's dress, I do. But I'd never wear it. She got married in the mid-70s and it's a long sleeve (yup, I'm sweating as I write that), polyester-y type thing with a plunging v-neck. Plus, my mom's 5'6" and I'm 5'2" so the proportions are off. When it came time to buy my own wedding dress—and PS. gals, I currently have racked up five of them, but that's another story for later—I definitely wanted something new. And while I dropped nowhere's near the amount of cash some spendier brides might have, I zero intention of purposely destroying my dress. I'd rather resell it here.

Okay, I want to hear your take on this. Has anyone among you trashed your dress? Would you dare? What are your thoughts on this bizarre wedding trend?